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December 13, 2007
Graham McDonald reports that the meeting last night (December 12) was successful in forming a committee to revive the Kintore Festival for 2008. More details in the New Year.
December 12, 2007
A special meeting of Aberdeenshire Councillor has remove local councillor Martin Ford from his job as chairman of its Infrastructure Services Committee. It has also moved to close the loophole that allowed this small committee to take an irrevocable decision on major projects like the Trump International Golf Links Scotland.
Although the full council demonstrated its support for the Trump scheme, apparently it is unable to open the matter again to overturn the minority committee's decision. By default, therefore, the scheme will go to the Scottish Government for a decision.
Earlier it had seemed that the Trump organisation would not wait around for a delayed decision on the project. However, the signs are now more optimistic that the unprecedented support from public, business leaders and politicians may make them willing to wait for a final decision that is said to take until Easter at least.
December 6, 2007
Since 2003, the village of Kintore has held a Summer Festival each year where its main purpose was to raise money for charities and foster good relations within the community and local businesses. Festivals held in previous years have only been made possible by the hard work of individuals in the community and the support of local businesses and organisations with this year being no different.
At the Kintore Summer Festival AGM this year, there were unfortunately not enough people to form a new committee for the 2008 Kintore Summer Festival. An EGM has been setup for the 12th December 2007 in Kintore Town House at 7:30pm so as to try to form a new committee again.
"If however a new committee can not be formed," explains Graham McDonald, "the existing committee, who are all standing down, will have to no other option but to dissolve the Kintore Summer Festival charity thus putting an end to it forever.
"A minimum of four people who are all eligible to become trustees of a charity is required to form a new committee, but the more people on the committee, the better. Various groups in the community have voiced their support, so the task should not be as arduous as it has been in previous years."
November 30, 2007
Kintore Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Ford sparked outrage when he used his casting vote to reject the £1 billion Trump International Golf Links project. If there was any doubt that he was out of tune with public opinion before the vote, the jammed phone lines and email systems at Aberdeenshire Council bore testimony to the outrage felt by the population of Aberdeenshire.
Amidst calls for his resignation, The Press and Journal in their leader of December 1, 2007 questions whether a man who opposes critical infrastructure projects like the AWPR and the Aberdeen Airport runway extension should be in such a position of power on a committee which looks at projects so central to the future development of Aberdeen City and Shire.
The worrying thing is that the first message to Trump Towers, to inform Donald Trump that his project had been rejected, was apparently from Ireland - one of the locations that will probably take over the project if the controversial decision cannot be overturned.
There is talk of Aberdeenshire Council holding an emergency meeting to overturn the rejection. An unrepentant Councillor Ford asserts that the decision cannot be overturned. For the future of Aberdeenshire Council, let us hope he is wrong... again.
A council and a councillor so out of tune with the mood of the electorate cannot have their respect. This decision was wrong and it needs to be righted quickly, otherwise those of us who live in Aberdeen City and Shire will be the only losers.
- See the posts about Councillor Ford's voting on the message board.
- Add your name to the Evening Express petition www.thisisaberdeen.co.uk/trumppetition
- No 10 Trump e-petition petitions.pm.gov.uk/TrumpSupport/
November 28, 2007
A public meeting is being organised by Kintore and District Community Council regarding the Application for Planning Permission by Donald Russell Ltd., for a substantial development at Midmill, Kintore.
"As is standard practice, details of the Planning Application were sent to the Community Council by Aberdeenshire Council, as part of the consultation process," explains Kenny Thomson, chair of Kintore and District Community Council. "This is an important issue for Kintore and a good turnout is expected."
The proposed development site is situated to the east of the old A96 road as you are leaving town, on the Kintore side of Jim Reid’s Car Sales business and will be accessed off the recently constructed roundabout, which also provides access into Sunnyside Avenue, at the opposite side of the road.
The purpose of the Public Meeting is to advise those who attend of what is contained within the Application:
- to provide an opportunity for members of the public to raise questions on various aspects of the proposed development
- to provide the Community Council with information on which to base a written response to Aberdeenshire Council, which will be representative of the views of the community.
Plans of the proposed development will be available for inspection at the Meeting and Donald Russell Ltd. has been invited to send a representative.
The Meeting will take place in Kintore Church Hall at 7.30pm on Monday 10 December.
November 6, 2007
The Kintore community website, Kintore.org.uk, has received its first comprehensive makeover since it was established in 2000.
Gone are the greens, blues and greys of the old design to be replace by a more modern white, red and grey design style. The typography has also been change to make the website more readable.
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"As a community website, run by volunteers in their spare time, www.kintore.org.uk exists to provide a service for the people of Kintore," explains the Kintore.org.uk webmaster. "We are interested to know what people think of the new look and are always open to suggestions for the design and the content of the site."
October 23, 2007
The Evening Express reveals that the protracted plans to open a new rail station in Kintore have creaked a few inches closer to fruition.
The paper says a site has been identified in an open area on the Inverurie side of Kintore and that NESTRANS has set aside £28,000 for consultants fees on the project. For many years there have been calls to re-establish a rail station in Kintore, which is currently the fastest growing community in Aberdeenshire and, possibly, the fastest growing in Scotland.
- “Kintore’s population has grown over the past 5 years from just over 1600 to over 2500 today,' Nanette Milne, Scottish Conservative MSP for North East Scotland points out. "The reopening of Kintore station would provide many positive benefits for local people and our environment along with the local economy."
She points out that the campaign to reopen Kintore station attracted cross party support and that, at the Holyrood election in May all the candidates supported the re-opening.
“Aberdeenshire Council and NESTRANS fully back a new station at Kintore," she contineus. I would have liked to see the Liberal Democrats put the local community first and perhaps launched a cross party petition on this issue which would have given real clout to this important transport project.”
October 20, 2007
Keir's Coaches have applied for full planning permission for a landfill site at Cottown Croft, Kintore. A retrospective planning application has also been made for a residential caravan park at Forest View, The Hill, Kintore. APPLICATION LISTING
Planning has also been submitted for a steading conversion at Clovenstone. APPLICATION LISTING
October 10, 2007
A new Community Council began work at the recent AGM held on 24th September when the following office bearers were confirmed.
New Chair Kenny Thomson
New vice-Chair Graham McDonald
New Treasurer Drew Cullinane
Ken White remains as Secretary.
A number of other new members were also chosen.
The next ordinary meeting of the Kintore and District Community Council is on Monday 15 October at 7pm in Room 111 in Kintore School (blue wing). At this meeting a presentation will be made to retiring Chairman, Iain Blair, who has stepped down after more than 10 years. Members of the public are very welcome to attend this and any future meeting which usually take place on the third Monday of the month.
The as well as being posted on this website, the agenda and previous minutes are available from the Post Office and Kintore Library.
September 18, 2007
Kintore hasn't many local retailers left and, as we know.
It's a widespread problem as local retailers face the unequal struggle with the marketing clout and buying power of the supermarkets. Scotland lost one fifth of its local food retailers in the six years to 2004. Similarly, Britain's filling sations - often serving dual purpose as local shops - are at their lowest number since 1912!
Against that background, Nanette Milne, Scottish Conservative MSP for the North East of Scotland is encouraging local people to nominate their best rural retailer. With less than three weeks to go until nominations close you can nominate in one or more of four categories:
Best Local Food Retailer
Best Village Shop/ Post Office
Best Diversification
Daily Telegraph Best Traditional Business
“This is a great opportunity for communities to get behind their local businesses and champion local produce", Nanette Milne said. "There are many retailers across Aberdeenshire who deserve the boost that comes from being a Best Rural Retailer."
- For more on the rules, the history, past winners and the online nomination form, go to www.bestruralretailer.co.uk
August 16, 2007
Detailed plans have been submitted on behalf of Grampian Housing Assocation for 86 new homes on at Midmill, on a site opposite Sunnyside Avenue. The plans show 50 semi-detached houses and 36 flats.
Recent pavement works have been completed and new traffic islands and a mini roundabout installed on the main road at the access point for the new development.
The new homes are part of a previously-submitted plan for a 4.88-hectare retail, business and housng development (PDF) at Midmill North. The site, alongside the former Midmill filling station and garage (itself the subject of earlier redevelopment plans), has a retail development and village green on either side of an access road, which will join the main road at a mini roundabout which will also serve the existing Sunnyside houses.
The houses will be mainly behind the village green, on the Kintore side of this central access road will be around 80 affordable homes and flats, while on the opposite side of the road is a retail site fronting onto the main road. Behind that are two sections of business park. Beside the village green, which it is intended will cater for a kick-about pitch, or 5-a-side soccer, the development allows for a community house.
July 26, 2007
The Kintore Adult Learning Programme for 2007/08 has been launched with subjects including aromatherapy, badminton, crafts, confidence building, digital photography, exercise, flower arranging, Italian, salsa, Spanish, spreadsheets, soft furnishing, stained glass and Word documents.
Enrolment: Kintore Primary School on Wednesday, 5 September 2007,
from 9.30 – 11.30 am and 7.00 – 9.00 pm
Monday
Spanish for Improvers 7.00 – 9.00 pm Kintore Primary
Adult Badminton 7.30 –10.00 pm Kintore Primary
Tuesday
Stained Glass 9.30 – 11.30 am Kintore Primary
Gentle Exercise 10.00 - 11.00 am Kintore Church Hall
Wednesday
Confidence Building/Well-Being 9.30 – 11.30 am Kintore Primary
Thursday
Soft Furnishing 7.00 – 9.00 pm Kintore Primary
Self-help Crafts 9.30 - 11.30 am Kintore Primary
Salsa 7.00 – 8.00 pm Kintore Primary
Friday
Art 9.30 – 11.30 am Kintore Primary
Art 12.30 – 2.30 pm Kintore Primary
First Aid, Self-help Sewing and Family History to be arranged.
FEES will be charged in five-week blocks in advance. A 2 hour class will cost £30.50, a 1½ hour £24.50 and a 1 hour £18.50. Concessions are available at all the above classes to those in receipt of benefit or old age pension. For example a two-hour class will cost £17 for five weeks.
Crèche A crèche is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9.30 – 11.30 am, The Crèche is run to complement any day-time classes but can also be used by parents or carers who wish to have time to themselves or need to do something without the presence of small children. Charges are £5 per session or £3 concession.
For more information, please contact Liz Mackay on 01467 634388 or 641444.
Proposed Aberdeen College Classes at Kintore
Aromatherapy Computing for Quietly Confident
Advanced ECDL – Spreadsheets
Advanced ECDL – Word Creative
Italian for Holidays
Digital Photography
Intro to Digital Photography
Psychology : Understanding the Individual
Introduction to Flower Arranging
If you are interested in any of the proposed Aberdeen College classes, please advise the Community Learning office on 01467 634388 or 641444 who will pass on the information.
June 14, 2007
Kintore Rotary has been formally constituted with the presentation of a charter to the new club.
Kintore Rotary meets at 7 for 7.30pm each Thursday in the Torryburn Hotel, Kintore. For further information contact Kenny Thomson, the Kintore Rotary President, email rotary@kintore.org.uk or call 01467 632668.
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
Watch out for more information on this website shortly.
June 14, 2007
The Bank of Scotland are to begin a mobile banking service that will visit Kintore each week.
"The mobile bank is currently in production and at this point is on schedule for our delivery date," a bank spokesman confirmed. "Assuming that this delivery date is met we anticipate launching the service week commencing 13 August."
Current plans are that the mobile bank will call at Kintore Public Hall car park each Thursday for approximately 45 minutes.
May 28, 2007
Kintore couple Alistair and Frances Neish are retiring from A & F Neish the butchers in The Square. The shop, which stands opposite the Town House in The Square is one of the most promient businesses in the town.
The couple opened the shop in the 1970s and it has been a prominent landmark in The Square ever since. Mr and Mrs Neish are reported to be retiring to Forres.
Between 1998 and 2004 Scotland lots a third of all its butchers shops as part of a 20% decline in the number of small food retailers. The good news, therefore, is that the Kintore butchers shop is not going to join these alarming statistics. The shop is being taken over by John and Gillian Dossett. In a story on the new owners,
The Press and Journal explains that Mr Dossett knows the business. He was Alistair Neish's first employee in this very shop, when Mr Neish took over!
May 24, 2007
The Oran Group, the new owners of the knackery at Cottown, Kintore, have submitted a planning application for a new steel framed structure to enclose existing facilities at the knackery.This is part of the plans to re-open the rendering plant later this year.
SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) is currently considering an application from the Oran Group to re-open the plant, which caused hundreds of complaints about the offensive smells from the plant, before its previous operators went into liquidation.
You can see the plans for the new building on the Aberdeenshire Council website.
Details of the public consultation are on the SEPA website.
May 4, 2007
New Kintore councillors elected in the Council Elections for Aberdeenshire Council.
Ward 10 - West Garioch (takes in parts of Kintore and north)
| Hazel Al-Kowarri | Liberal Democrat |
| Alison Grant | SNP |
| Sheena Margaret Lonchay | Liberal Democrat |
Ward 11 - Inverurie and District (takes in parts of Kintore east of River Don)
| Richard Cowling | Conservative |
| Martin Kitts-Hayes | Liberal Democrat |
| Mike Raeburn | Liberal Democrat |
| Brian Hunter Stuart | SNP |
Ward 12 - East Garioch (takes in parts of Kintore and south)
| Nan Cullinane | Liberal Democrat |
| Martin Anthony Ford | Liberal Democrat |
| Fergie Hood | SNP |
May 4, 2007
Alex Salmond is the new constituency MSP for Kintore. The SNP leader polled 14,650 to take the seat from Nora Radcliffe who had held the seat at the last two Scottish Elections for the Liberal Democrats and his party went on to take the most seats in the Scottish Parliament by a margin of one.
A 18.8% shift to the SNP in Gordon Constituencey saw serving MSP Nora Radcliffe from the Lib Dems slip to second place by a margine of more than 2,000 votes.
Nanette Milne for the Conservatives also saw her vote fall, and finished in third place with 2,276 votes.
| Alex Salmond | SNP | 14,650 |
| Nora Radcliffe | Liberal Democrat | 12,588 |
| Nanette Milne | Conservative | 5,348 |
| Neil Cardwell | Labour | 2,276 |
| Donald Marr | Independent | 199 |
| Dave Mathers | Independent | 185 |
| Bob Ingram | Scottish Enterprise Party | 117 |
April 29, 2007
The fastest growing community is to be left without any recycling facility, when the current centre at the Torryburn Hotel closes this week, on May 1.
Considering the promotion of its green credentials, the lack of any recycling facilities in Kintore must be an embarrassment to the council and hopefully will be on the top of the agenda for the new council elected this Thursday (May 3). The irony of people having to undertake additional car trips to drive to Inverurie to recycle their rubbish clearly runs against the green agenda.
March 7, 2007
A planning applicaiton has been submitted for the conversion of a steading to a house and the erection of a wind turbine at Forest Lodge, Balbithan. Other recent planning applications include an agricultural building at Cairnhall Farm, Kintore; 33kv reinforcement of the electricity line Kintore to Skene; alterations and extensions at 7 Gauchhill, Kintore and alternations and extension to the Old Police House, on Northern Road, Kintore.
February 26, 2007
Kintore Community Council is to take a significant step towards providing better facilities for its younger residents, with a public meeting in Kintore School on Friday, March 9 at 7.30 pm.
“Kintore has expanded rapidly over recent years,” says Kintore Community Council secretary Ken White, “but facilities for young people have failed to keep pace. In reality facilities have actually reduced. This is something that has concerned the community council for a long time. It has been an agenda item now for more than two years.
“We have decided we must take action and that is why we have called the new group that will take this forward, Action Kintore. The meeting in Kintore School, will help Action Kintore to understand what we need to do to make Kintore a better community for all its residents.”
As part of its planning for Action Kintore, Kintore Community Council issued a questionnaire to secondary pupils from the town.
“We issued 300 questionnaires in total and the response was excellent – about 85% of the pupils responded,” Ken White explains. “The most popular request was that young people wanted somewhere warm, safe and dry to meet with their friends.
“We have a growing problem of vandalism and other anti-social behaviour from a minority of youngsters in Kintore. What we want to do is nip this in the bud by finding out the root cause and seeing what we can do to put things right.
“What we want to do now is to engage the whole community in finding out what is needed. Once we have done that we can put our proposals forward to the appropriate authorities and encourage them to provide the necessary funding to turn these plans into a reality.”
- Have your say about Action Kintore. Post your message on the ACTION KINTORE Message Board.
February 15, 2007
Site work has started on a 4.88-hectare retail, business and housng development (PDF) at Midmill North. The site, alongside the former Midmill filling station and garage (itself the subject of earlier redevelopment plans), has a retail development and village green on either side of an access road, which will join the main road at a mini roundabout which will also serve the existing Sunnyside houses.
Behind the village green, on the Kintore side of this central access road will be around 80 affordable homes and flats, while on the opposite side of the road is a retail site fronting onto the main road. Behind that are two sections of business park. Beside the village green, which it is intended will cater for a kick-about pitch, or 5-a-side soccer, the development allows for a community house.
February 12, 2007
North East Scotland MSP Nanette Milne and her Aberdeenshire council candidated colleague David Clucas have called on Aberdeenshire Council to clean up the public toilets in Northern Road, Kintore.
“I have also been contacted by local residents in Kintore regarding the state of the public toilet on Northern Road," says Nanette Milne, who is standing as the Gordon consituency MSP at the Scottish Parliament elections on May 3. "I have written to the Chief Executive of Aberdeenshire Council, Alan Campbell, asking for the Council to address the situation and clean up its act."
February 6, 2007
The pressure for re-opening a station in Kintore has gone to the Scottish Parliament with a motion from North East Conservative MSP Nanette Milne. The text of the motion is:
Nanette Milne (Con) - Kintore Station:
“That the Parliament welcomes the proposal to reopen Kintore station as a medium-term priority within the Nestrans Aberdeen Crossrail project; notes that there is strong local support for the reopening of the train station; further notes that Kintore’s population has grown over the last five years from around 1,600 to over 2,500 today; further notes that the reopening of Kintore station would provide an integrated transport service for the Garioch area and would also help to reduce traffic congestion on local roads as well as being more environmentally friendly, and calls on Transport Scotland, the Scottish Executive and Nestrans to work towards the reopening of the station at the earliest possible time as a strategic part of enhanced rail provision.”
February 1, 2007
A planning applicaton has been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council for a new house near The Firs in the Broomhill area of Kintore. Meanwhile at Hill of Cottown, a new house is proposed adjacent to Oakgrove.
January 31, 2007
The knackery just outside Kintore, which caused regular complaints to SEPA about the smell that regularly wafted over Kintore, is to reopen.
The previous owners, Dundas Brothers, went out of business at the peak of the furore over the offensive odours emitted by the factory. New owners, the Oran Group, have sought to put minds at rest that the redeveloped facility will be a good neighbour with a visit for community councillors taking place at the end of January. SEE COUNCIL MINUTES
January 30, 2007
The SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) based at the Craibstone Estate, Bucksburn is now recruiting for its HNC and HND level courses in Leisure Management (with Sport and Recreation) for October admission. The course allows you to build your academic qualifications while also gaining valuable work experience and extra awards (such as a First Aid certificate, Lifeguard qualification, and coaching awards). Units of study include Sports Development, Outdoor Pursuits, Event Management, A Practical Approach to Leisure, Play Development and Leisure in the Community. Progression to a BA degree is also available.
Industry contacts have said: "The leisure management courses at SAC enable students to apply theory into practice and whilst being academically sound also have a very vocational foundation."
SAC runs regular open days giving you the opportunity to visit the campus and speak to staff. The next Open Day is on Wednesday 14th March– book on-line through the web site (www.sac.ac.uk/opendays) or call 0800 269 453.
January 5, 2007
Work is underway on the groundworks for a new business and industrial development at South Midmill, Kintore. The 8.97-hectare development, for Uppermill Farms will adjoin the existing Midmill Business Park. Four development areas are proposed on the site which alongside the main road from Kintore to Broomhill Roundabout.
A new link road is to be constructed from the existing Midmill Business Park over the burn to the proposed new development. The bridge already appears to be in place.
The full plans can be viewed on the Aberdeenshire Council website.
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